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Estimating count and density maps from crowd images has a wide range of applications such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring, public safety and urban planning. In addition, techniques developed for crowd counting can be applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Crowd analysis from drones has attracted increasing attention in recent times due to the ease of use and affordable cost of these devices. However, how this technology can provide a solution to crowd flow detection is still an unexplored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Giovanna Castellano , Eugenio Cotardo , Corrado Mencar , Gennaro Vessio

State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density in the image plane. While useful for this purpose, this image-plane density has no immediate physical meaning because it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Weizhe Liu , Krzysztof Lis , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

We propose a novel crowd counting model that maps a given crowd scene to its density. Crowd analysis is compounded by myriad of factors like inter-occlusion between people due to extreme crowding, high similarity of appearance between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Deepak Babu Sam , Shiv Surya , R. Venkatesh Babu

Automatic people counting from images has recently drawn attention for urban monitoring in modern Smart Cities due to the ubiquity of surveillance camera networks. Current computer vision techniques rely on deep learning-based algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Marco Avvenuti , Marco Bongiovanni , Luca Ciampi , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Nicola Messina

Crowd counting is an important problem in computer vision due to its wide range of applications in image understanding. Currently, this problem is typically addressed using deep learning approaches, such as Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Zhen Wang , Yuelei Li , Jia Wan , Nuno Vasconcelos

The performance of optical flow algorithms greatly depends on the specifics of the content and the application for which it is used. Existing and well established optical flow datasets are limited to rather particular contents from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gregory Schröder , Tobias Senst , Erik Bochinski , Thomas Sikora

The task of crowd counting is to automatically estimate the pedestrian number in crowd images. To cope with the scale and perspective changes that commonly exist in crowd images, state-of-the-art approaches employ multi-column CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Lu Zhang , Miaojing Shi , Qiaobo Chen

As the population of world is increasing, and even more concentrated in urban areas, ensuring public safety is becoming a taunting job for security personnel and crowd managers. Mass events like sports, festivals, concerts, political…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Sultan Daud Khan , Muhammad Saqib , Michael Blumenstein

In high population cities, the gatherings of large crowds in public places and public areas accelerate or jeopardize people safety and transportation, which is a key challenge to the researchers. Although much research has been carried out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Muhammad Siraj

Forecasting human activities observed in videos is a long-standing challenge in computer vision, which leads to various real-world applications such as mobile robots, autonomous driving, and assistive systems. In this work, we present a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Hiroaki Minoura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura , Yoshitaka Ushiku

Crowd counting, i.e., estimation number of the pedestrian in crowd images, is emerging as an important research problem with the public security applications. A key component for the crowd counting systems is the construction of counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Xingjiao Wu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Wenxin Hu , Jing Yang , Liang He

Robots operating in human-populated environments must navigate safely and efficiently while minimizing social disruption. Achieving this requires estimating crowd movement to avoid congested areas in real-time. Traditional microscopic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Maryam Kazemi Eskeri , Thomas Wiedemann , Ville Kyrki , Dominik Baumann , Tomasz Piotr Kucner

Crowd counting is a fundamental problem in crowd analysis which is typically accomplished by estimating a crowd density map and summing over the density values. However, this approach suffers from background noise accumulation and loss of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yasiru Ranasinghe , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Vishal M. Patel

Research in neural networks in the field of computer vision has achieved remarkable accuracy for point estimation. However, the uncertainty in the estimation is rarely addressed. Uncertainty quantification accompanied by point estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Min-hwan Oh , Peder A. Olsen , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy

Accurately estimating the number of objects in a single image is a challenging yet meaningful task and has been applied in many applications such as urban planning and public safety. In the various object counting tasks, crowd counting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Guangshuai Gao , Junyu Gao , Qingjie Liu , Qi Wang , Yunhong Wang

Crowd gatherings at social and cultural events are increasing in leaps and bounds with the increase in population. Surveillance through computer vision and expert decision making systems can help to understand the crowd phenomena at large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Shreetam Behera , Debi Prosad Dogra , Malay Kumar Bandyopadhyay , Partha Pratim Roy

Modeling crowd behavior relies on accurate data of pedestrian movements at a high level of detail. Imaging sensors such as cameras provide a good basis for capturing such detailed pedestrian motion data. However, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-11 Stefan Seer , Norbert Brändle , Carlo Ratti

People counting system in crowded places has become a very useful practical application that can be accomplished in various ways which include many traditional methods using sensors. Examining the case of real time scenarios, the algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Satyanarayana Penke , Gopikrishna Pavuluri , Soukhya Kunda , Satvik M , CharanKumar Y

Crowd counting, for estimating the number of people in a crowd using vision-based computer techniques, has attracted much interest in the research community. Although many attempts have been reported, real-world problems, such as huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Saeed Amirgholipour Kasmani , Xiangjian He , Wenjing Jia , Dadong Wang , Michelle Zeibots